[Active-l] (NEWS) Today's Cultural Warfare Update
Dara (R'ykandar Korra'ti)
kahvi at murkworks.net
Thu May 25 00:07:05 PDT 2006
"Nigeria is cracking down savagely on homosexuality - with the approval
of the Anglican church";
Focus on the Family: "Pro-Family Groups Object to Global AIDS Fund
Increase" - mostly because it's going to groups that don't push
abstinence-only approaches;
The US's UN delegation "flip-flops" and drops opposition to gay groups
being represented at the U.N. Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC);
Focus on the Family's ACTION ITEM is to protest to President Bush
against letting gay groups have any say anywhere at the UN;
Alabama House committee passes near-blanket abortion ban; exceptions
are for the life of the mother and "failure of an organ or major bodily
function," which is more broad, but not very much more broad, than only
"life of the mother";
Focus on the Family attacks Centres for Disease Control conference on
STD prevention, calling it "anti-conservative, anti-Christian"; asserts
they support "sex at any age, at any time, with anyone";
Seattle _Times_ article on Referendum 65's use of churches as their
primary signature-gathering system; Referendum 65 would overturn
hiring/firing/lending civil rights protections for GBLT people in
Washington State;
Faith and Freedom Network claims Washington State's addition of GBLT
people to the state's basic civil rights groups makes even thoughts
critical of GBLT people a crime; this is, of course, unmitigated
bullshit; urges people to download, print, and sign the Referendum 65
petition;
Faith and Freedom Network claims GBLT civil rights protections are
"predatory" and an attack on children; urges people to download, print,
and sign the Referendum 65 petition;
Focus on the Family rails against "Homosexual Indoctrination on Kids";
Holy crap, could this possibly be true? Focus on the Family says Gallup
reports 53% of Democrats support GBLT marriage rights; meanwhile,
support for an anti-marriage amendment is at 50%;
California has a parental-notification initiative on the ballot again
this year; Focus on the Family's headline says that California "wants"
this initiative, but 2005 had a similar one that was defeated outright
at the polls;
Focus on the Family ACTION ITEM to volunteer with Focus on the Family
against marriage rights; claims 75% of Americans want to "protect
marriage," but two stories up they admit that support for an
anti-marriage amendment is a dead heat at 50%;
***** Oklahoma had a law refusing to recognise _adoptions_ by same-sex
couples legally conducted in other states; such children were
parentless(!) in Oklahoma. A Federal judge overturned that on
Constitutional full faith and credit grounds; Focus on the Family says
this proves the need for an _anti-marriage rights amendment_. What's
neat about _this_ is that it highlights what I've been saying: the
"marriage protection amendment" isn't just about marriage, it's about
_exempting queers from equal protection_, by writing scribbling in an
"except queers" into Constitutional law. Once it's there on one basis,
it can and will be applied on other bases; oh, and, of course, because
the ruling went against the fundamentalists, Focus on the Family has
declared the judge an "activist";
US Supreme Court fails to intervene in a same-sex adoption case;
***** Robert Knight writing for Concerned Women for America want the
anti-marriage "Marriage Protection Amendment" amended to specifically
ban civil unions, domestic partnerships, and any similar legal
agreements;
Agape Press on the attempt to charge Episcopal bishop Gene Robinson,
who is gay, with violations of church law for being gay; similar
charges wanted for the bishops who consecrated him;
Family Research Council ACTION ITEM to support the anti-marriag-rights
"Marriage Protection Amendment";
FRC amicus brief supporting the so-called "partial birth abortion" ban;
This isn't really cultural warfare, I'm just amazed the American Family
Association still uses "The Dark Continent" to describe Africa;
AFA reports the Christian Medical & Dental Associations condemn
screening embryos for cancer genes;
LifeNews.com reports a planned anti-abortion action on the Pine Ridge
Sioux reservation; includes ACTION ITEM to "voice your opposition" to
President Fire Thunder;
Pope criticises Canadian cultural secularism;
Ohio anti-gay activist proud of Ohio's dead-last ranking in protecting
the rights of lesbian and gay people; "they feel like we're intolerant.
So I guess we should wear that as a badge of honor";
Traditional Values Coalition condemns Global AIDS Funding proposal;
"TVC Chairman And Staffer Invited To White House Signing Ceremony";
frankly, to me, it looks like he's just in the audience;
The anti-GBLT "Risk Audit Project," an effort by Exodus Mandate and
Mission America to investigate public schools for any sign of GBLT
tolerance and take action against it - and if that fails, remove
children from public schools, issues a press release claiming increased
support; they add a list of regional chapters of various fundamentalist
groups adding their individual endorsements;
REAL Women of Canada press release on religious coalition to overturn
C-38 in Harper's promised marriage revote;
Canada Family Action Coalition reprints a WorldNetDaily anti-abortion
article called "The Lunatic Fringe goes Mainstream";
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Partners in prejudice
Nigeria is cracking down savagely on homosexuality - with the approval
of the Anglican church.
May 19, 2006 02:35 PM
http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/peter_tatchell/2006/05/
anglicans_applaud_nigerian_hom.html
With the full blessing of the Anglican Church of Nigeria and its
leader, Archbishop Peter Akinola, the Nigerian government has begun
legislating one of the world's most repressive anti-gay laws.
[...]
The new legislation bans same-sex marriages and blessing ceremonies and
criminalises anyone who attends or witnesses them. And it goes much
further: it also proscribes any "public or private" affirmation of
same-sex love and gay human rights.
This will criminalise gay organisations, gay churches, gay bars, gay
blessings, gay safer sex education, gay newspapers, gay human rights
advocacy and sympathetic advice and welfare support for vulnerable
lesbians and gay men.
Newspaper, television, radio and internet discussions supportive of gay
equality will become a criminal offence.
[More at URL]
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Pro-Family Groups Object to Global AIDS Fund Increase
In a letter to Congress, they call it 'unaccountable.'
by Pete Winn, associate editor
Focus on the Family
March 24, 2006
http://www.family.org/cforum/extras/a0040614.cfm
Members of the foreign operations subcommittee of the House
Appropriations Committee have voted to double President Bush’s budget
request for The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.
The full committee will soon consider the budget measure with the
increased funding for The Global Fund.
More than 25 pro-family groups, including Focus on the Family Action,
sent a letter to Congress to protest the additional U.S. contribution,
which comes at the expense of more effective, accountable plans like
PEPFAR, which stands for the President's Emergency Program for AIDS
Relief.
[...]
“A lot of kids who would have gotten an abstinence message will now not
receive it," he told Family News in Focus, "and that’s the tragedy.”
In fact, abstinence is the cornerstone of the president's initiative.
Specifically, it endorses the "ABC" model to fight AIDS created by
Uganda President Yoweri Museveni more than 15 years ago.
[More at URL]
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U.S. Delegation to the U.N. Flip-Flops on Homosexuality
Votes to include two gay groups on a council.
by Wendy Cloyd, assistant editor
Focus on the Family
May 24, 2006
http://www.family.org/cforum/news/a0040616.cfm
A U.S. delegation to the United Nations voted last week in favor of
allowing two homosexual advocacy groups to join the U.N. Economic and
Social Council (ECOSOC). Though the applications from Germany's Lesbian
and Gay Federation and the International Lesbian and Gay Association
(ILGA) were ultimately denied by ECOSOC on a 9-7 vote, the U.S. vote
represents a shift — just five months ago, the delegation voted against
admitting gay-rights groups.
[...]
Thomas Jacobson, representative to the U.N. for Focus on the Family
Action, said the objective of homosexual-activist groups worldwide is
to make sexual orientation a human right.
"Homosexuality is not a legitimate foundation for human rights — sexual
orientation is not comparable with ethnic origin or race," he said.
"The U.N. has lost much of its credibility in the area of human rights
and should be focusing on the protection of true human rights, not
pseudo 'rights.' "
[...]
TAKE ACTION:
Ask President Bush to direct the nation's U.N. delegations not to
support gay-activist groups. You may contact him through the
CitizenLink Action Center. If you are a CitizenLink Daily Update
subscriber, you may click on the blue "Take Action" button in the
e-mail to be automatically logged in. Otherwise, be sure to either log
in or enter your ZIP code first to make your elected officials' contact
information shows up.
[More at URL]
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Louisiana One Step Closer to Banning Abortion
Focus on the Family
Newsbriefs
May 24, 2006
http://www.family.org/cforum/briefs/a0040621.cfm
The Louisiana House Committee on the Administration of Criminal Justice
approved a bill that would ban almost all abortions. The bill, already
approved by the Senate, now moves to the full House for a vote,
LifeNews.com reported.
The committee made a minor adjustment to the language used for the
health exception.
The Senate bill is sponsored by Democratic Sen. Ben Nevers, who opposed
adding a health exception for victims of rape, concerned that it would
weaken the ban.
[...]
"This vote reflects the growing understanding that abortion is violence
against women," she said, "and that a rape exception would allow the
rapist to victimize the woman twice, in addition to ending an innocent
life."
[More at URL]
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Public-Health Conference Scorns Abstinence Education
An eyewitness account of a government-sponsored anti-conservative,
anti-Christian conference.
by Linda Klepacki, analyst for sexual health
Focus on the Family
May 24, 2006
http://www.family.org/cforum/commentary/a0040610.cfm
I was among a handful of conservatives who dared sign up for the 2006
National STD Prevention Conference held earlier this month that was
presented by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It was
blindingly clear that the majority of attendees wished Christian
conservatives would go away and let them tell our young people how to
have sex at any age, at any time, with anyone.
[More at URL]
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Effort to repeal state gay-rights law gathers momentum from pulpit
By Andrew Garber
Seattle Times staff reporter
May 24, 2006
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/
2003014817_gayrights24m.html
OLYMPIA — A referendum campaign aimed at repealing Washington's
gay-rights law has no paid signature gatherers, no advertising budget
and not much money in the bank. Yet supporters say signatures are
rolling in by the thousands.
The reason? The Faith and Freedom Network and Sound the Alarm, two
conservative religious groups that existed before the measure was
filed, say they are leading an extensive grass-roots campaign, urging
congregations throughout Washington to sign petitions and volunteer.
During services at Northshore Baptist Church in Bothell on Sunday, the
pastor urged congregants to sign Referendum 65 petitions that filled a
table in the lobby.
The Faith and Freedom Network and Sound the Alarm are encouraging
similar signature-gathering efforts across the state.
[...]
"This is about intolerance of the Christian world view. It's about
codifying into law the acceptance of a behavior so that we cannot say
it is wrong. That is what we're objecting to," he said.
[More at URL]
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WA Dept of Health Celebrates Gay Lifestyle
Faith and Freedom Network
May 24, 2006
An email sent on May 18, 2006 from Laurie Jinkins at the Washington
Department of Health with subject, “looking for some good pictures,”
announced that (quote), “June is ‘Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender
and Questioning Month.’”
[...]
One has to ask, “Should the Washington Department of Health be
promoting and celebrating Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and
Questioning month?”
But then, if HB2661 is left to become law, I would be discriminating to
ask the question. In fact, I could be, under HB2661, held to be
discriminating to even “think” the question. [Ed. Note: This is, of
course, unmitigated bullshit.]
[More at URL]
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Rep Ed Murray Sets the Record Straight
Faith and Freedom Network
Tuesday, May 23, 2006
http://www.faithandfreedom.us/weblog/2006/05/rep-ed-murray-sets-record-
straight.html
Representative Ed Murray, a Seattle Democrat who is one of a handful of
openly gay legislators, told the Seattle P.I. this past weekend that he
was not surprised Tim Eyman was working with the religious right on
Referendum 65.
He said, “My assumption all along is that Tim Eyman, who has tried to
portray himself as this anti-taxtarian, is actually part of the
religious right and is showing his right-wing religious connections to
try to repeal the civil rights bill [HB 2661].”
It seems that anyone who gets in the way of the gay agenda is attacked
and labeled. Sometimes they are even called, “religious right.”
The duplicity and divisiveness of these folks is almost unbelievable.
[...]
This bill, HB 2661, is predatory. Those who are advancing it are
presenting themselves as reasonable, common sense, live-and-let-live
people while doing everything in their power to redefine marriage, the
family, and censor Biblical teaching on homosexuality. Left to their
devises, they will re-educate your children and redefine our social
order as we have know it.
[More at URL]
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Q&A: Dr. Bill Maier on the Effects of Homosexual Indoctrination on Kids
California legislation mandating textbooks take a flattering view of
homosexuality could have devastating effects on kids.
by Pete Winn, associate editor
Focus on the Family
May 23, 2006
http://www.family.org/cforum/extras/a0040597.cfm
California lawmakers are a step away from giving their approval to S.B.
1437, a bill which would mandate that all public school materials
include a "positive portrayal" of homosexuality -- as well as
bisexuality and cross-dressing.
Dr. Bill Maier, vice president and psychologist in residence at Focus
on the Family, said the impact on children would be devastating.
[More at URL]
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Majority of Americans Oppose Gay Marriage
Focus on the Family
Newsbriefs
May 23, 2006
http://www.family.org/cforum/briefs/a0040595.cfm
A new Gallup poll found 58 percent of the nation does not believe
marriage includes same-sex partners and 50 percent support a
constitutional amendment that preserves marriage as the union of one
man and one woman.
[...]
While 53 percent of Democrats support gay marriage, 55 percent oppose
an amendment preserving traditional marriage.
[More at URL]
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Golden State Wants Parental Notification
Focus on the Family
Newsbriefs
May 23, 2006
http://www.family.org/cforum/briefs/a0040594.cfm
Californians have gathered more than a million signatures in order to
place an initiative on November's ballot that will let voters decide
whether parents should be told when a teen is considering an abortion,
LifeNews.com reported.
[...]
Albin Rhomberg, a retired physician and spokesman for the drive, said
the parental-notification initiative is similar to one defeated last
year, but the 2005 special election saw every measure defeated. He's
more hopeful about this year's outcome.
[More at URL]
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Volunteers Needed to Protect Marriage
A grassroots effort is under way to tell U.S. senators that America
wants marriage constitutionally protected.
by Wendy Cloyd, assistant editor
Focus on the Family
May 22, 2006
http://www.family.org/cforum/extras/a0040581.cfm
A coalition of pro-family groups is looking for volunteers to tell
senators that America overwhelmingly supports an amendment to the U.S.
Constitution to define marriage as the union of one man and one woman.
The Marriage Protection Amendment (MPA) passed the Senate Judiciary
Committee last week on a 10-to-8 party-line vote. It's expected to be
brought to the floor by Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., on
Monday, June 5. That's when senators must know what Americans expect.
Catherine Snow, who is helping to coordinate the grassroots effort,
said, on average, 75 percent of voters indicate they would vote in
favor of protecting marriage.
"We really want to share with senators that mainstream America really
does support a constitutional amendment," she said, "because marriage
is not safe in the states anymore."
[...]
For those who cannot travel to D.C., there is plenty to be done from
home.
"We can plug them in to whatever activities are going on in their
state," Snow said. "If they say, 'I have a couple of hours for lunch
that I can go do something,' I can help plug them in to an organization
near them."
One thing that everyone can do: contact their senators.
[...]
FOR MORE INFORMATION:
If you'd like to volunteer to help get the federal Marriage Protection
Amendment passed by Congress, visit this Web site (
http://www.formarriage.org/ ) and click on the button that says "We
Need Your Help — Volunteer Form." Whether you can pray, call, e-mail or
go visit your senators' offices in person, your help is vital.
[More at URL]
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Judge Strikes Down Oklahoma Gay-Adoption Ban
Activist decision fuels the case for the federal Marriage Protection
Amendment.
by Pete Winn, associate editor
Focus on the Family
May 22, 2006
http://www.family.org/cforum/news/a0040583.cfm
A federal district judge Friday struck down Oklahoma's law that
prohibits adoption by two people of the same sex. Pro-family experts
say the decision could possibly set the stage for the imposition of gay
marriage upon states.
In a 31-page decision, U.S. District Judge Robin Cauthron held that
Oklahoma's law violated due process and equal-protection rights
established by the U.S. Constitution.
"The very fact that the adoptions have occurred," Cauthron wrote, "is
evidence that a court of law has found the adoptions to be in the best
interests of the children. . . . To now attempt to strip a child of one
of his or her parents seems far removed from the statute’s purpose and
therefore from Defendants’ (the state's) asserted important government
objective."
The Lambda Legal Foundation challenged the Oklahoma law on behalf of
three gay couples, who argued that since they had been given parental
rights in other states, the Sooner State should also be forced to
recognize their parenthood.
But Bruce Hausknecht, judicial analyst for Focus on the Family Action,
said last Friday's decision could eventually have dire consequences for
traditional marriage because the judge also cited a doctrine called the
Full Faith and Credit Clause of the U.S. Constitution.
[...]
David Dunn, research and policy director of the Oklahoma Family Policy
Council, said the state Legislature had enacted the
adoption-invalidation law, because the state was becoming known as a
gay-adoption factory.
[...]
TAKE ACTION:
Please contact your senators today and let them know that marriage
protection is a priority -- that once it is redefined, marriage as an
institution will be destroyed. Ask them to support the Marriage
Protection Amendment.
If you are a CitizenLink subscriber, please click on the blue "Marriage
Protection Amendment" button in the e-mail to be automatically logged
in to our Action Center and taken to the page where you may contact
your senators.
Otherwise, click here to visit our Action Center (
http://vocusgr.vocus.com/GRSPACE2/dotnet/WebPublish/Controller.aspx?
SiteName=FOTF&Definition=ContactLegislators&IssueID=2203 ).
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U.S. Supreme Opts Out of Gay-Adoption Dispute
Focus on the Family
Newsbriefs
May 22, 2006
http://www.family.org/cforum/briefs/a0040588.cfm
The U.S. Supreme Court, for the second time, declined to hear a
child-custody case brought by two lesbians, The Associated Press
reported.
The birth mother, identified only as Sharon S., signed an adoption
petition in August of 1999 to allow her then-partner, identified as
Annette F., to adopt a child that the two were raising together. The
women separated, and Sharon S. tried to request dismissal of the
petition.
[More at URL]
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Why a Federal Marriage Amendment Is Needed 5/22/2006
By Robert Knight
Rogue judges and legislators are creating counterfeits.
Opponents of a federal constitutional marriage amendment often contend
that it’s too early, that there is no need for such a measure. Wait
until something really big happens, they say.
But events over the past two years clearly illustrate that a federal
amendment is overdue. The law is in turmoil. Lots of “big things” have
happened.
[...]
Connecticut – October, 2005: Connecticut becomes the sixth state (after
California, Hawaii, New Jersey, Massachusetts and Vermont) to offer
some form of legal recognition to same-sex couples.
[...]
CWA does not support the Marriage Protection Amendment as currently
worded because the second sentence is open to differing
interpretations, and its drafters acknowledged that it was specifically
crafted that way so state legislators could create civil unions,
domestic partnerships and other forms of counterfeit marriage.
CWA believes that legislators should not create incentives in the law
that encourage people to remain trapped in homosexuality, and that such
laws inevitably result in the degradation of the natural family and the
oppression of people who hold traditional views of marriage.
CWA prefers the Institution of Marriage Amendment authored by Home
School Legal Defense Association President Michael Farris. That
amendment, which has not been introduced by any member of Congress,
protects marriage in all aspects:
Marriage in the United States shall consist only of the union of a man
and a woman. Neither the United States nor any State shall recognize or
grant to any unmarried person the legal rights or status of a spouse.
[More at URL]
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Commentary & News Briefs
Agape Press
May 19, 2006
Compiled by Jenni Parker
http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/5/192006h.asp
[...]
...Tensions are building as Episcopalians prepare for their church's
General Convention, which begins June 13 in Columbus, Ohio. Episcopal
delegates must respond to outrage among fellow Anglicans worldwide over
the 2003 consecration of the first openly homosexual Episcopal bishop,
V. Gene Robinson of New Hampshire. Anglican leaders have called for a
moratorium on electing partnered homosexual Episcopal bishops and on
creating blessing ceremonies for same-sex couples. If Anglican leaders
conclude that the General Convention has not moved far enough toward
discouraging those practices, it could break apart the
77-million-member Communion. A conservative group called Lay
Episcopalians for the Anglican Communion is pressing for a church trial
of Robinson and the dozens of bishops who consecrated him. [AP]
[More at URL]
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Voice Your Values for Marriage Before the Senate Votes!
Family Research Council
May 24, 2006 - Wednesday
Forward to a Friend!
http://www.frc.org/get.cfm?i=AL06E09&f=PG03I03
Less than two weeks from today the U.S. Senate will vote on S. J. Res.
1, the Marriage Protection Amendment to the Constitution. Marriage is
an indispensable institution, and this is a vote of surpassing
importance. In the decades to come, our children and our grandchildren
will turn to us and ask, "When the issue of marriage was decided, were
you involved? Where did you stand?"
I've written lengthy emails on this issue before, but this one will be
short. We need at least 13,000 more signers of our online petition to
reach our goal. These petitions will be presented to Senate Majority
Leader Bill Frist on Monday, June 5. I would like to count your name,
and those of your family and friends, among the signers. Please take a
few seconds to add your name to this petition in support of the
Marriage Protection Amendment.
Let's all take the actions needed to answer the question the rising
generations will ask us: "Where did you stand?"
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Amicus Brief: Gonzales v. Carhart
Family Research Council
May 25, 2006
http://www.frc.org/get.cfm?i=CB06E01&f=FR03G04
Family Research Council has filed a "friend of the court" brief with
the U.S. Supreme Court in the case of Gonzales v. Carhart. The Supreme
Court last February agreed to take up this case, which challenges the
Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act which was passed by Congress and signed
by President Bush in 2003. The act never went into effect since Planned
Parenthood immediately went into federal court and obtained an
injunction to stop enforcement of the act. For the last three years
partial birth abortions have continued to be practiced in America, in
spite of widespread public opinion against this terrible procedure. We
hope the Supreme Court will side with the angels on this one, and save
our future generations from an untimely almost born death.
[Ed. Note: there's a link to the PDF on the page]
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Ministry Profile: Ministry nurtures Christian leadership on dark
continent
By Rebecca Grace | AFA Journal Staff Writer
May 2006
http://www.afajournal.org/2006/may/506Africans.asp
Val Vickery, a resident of Jackson, Mississippi, and former missionary
to Africa, had no idea how many lives would be changed as a result of
her visit to a radio station on a college campus in Malawi, Africa,
nearly 10 years ago.
She and her husband Barry had just moved from the United States to
Africa where they would spend the next year and a half sharing the
Gospel while teaching. They arrived during the summer months, so the
school with which they would be working was not in session.
[More at URL]
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British Okay Scrapping Embryos Based on Potential for Adult Illness
By Mary Rettig
American Family Association/Agape Press
May 24, 2006
http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/5/afa/242006c.asp
(AgapePress) - The executive director of the Christian Medical & Dental
Associations (CMDA) says Great Britain has taken a dangerous and
unethical step in embryo screening.
The British Human Fertilization and Embryology Authority recently ruled
that fertility clinics can screen out embryos that contain genes that
raise the risk of cancer in adulthood. The doctors will do this by
using pre-implantation genetic diagnosis, which removes a couple of
cells from an eight-cell embryo.
[More at URL]
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Members of South Dakota Indian Tribe to Protest Abortion Facility
Proposal
by Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor
May 24, 2006
http://www.lifenews.com/state1674.html
Pine Ridge, SD (LifeNews.com) -- Members of the Pine Ridge Indian
Reservation are meeting today to organize a protest against Sioux Tribe
President Cecelia Fire Thunder's proposal to build an abortion facility
on the reservation. Indian elders, youth and community members are
slated to take part in organizing the protest.
[...]
[President Fire Thunder] originally planned to build the abortion
business only if the attempt to defeat the ban failed. She told Indian
Country Today that it will move ahead regardless.
She already has a name, too -- the Sacred Choices Clinic.
Planning for the abortion facility is already underway and she has put
together volunteers to coordinate strategy, attorneys are drafting
papers and looking at potential legal obstacles, Thunder explained.
Thunder has already raised $5,000 from pro-abortion activists across
the country wanted to see the Indian abortion center succeed. She
indicated she's received hundreds of emails in support.
[...]
TAKE ACTION: Voice your opposition to: Oglala Sioux Tribe, ATTN:
President Fire Thunder, P. O. Box H, Pine Ridge, SD 57770. You can also
call 605-867-6074 or fax a letter to 605-867-6076.
[More at URL]
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Pope: "Canada is Today Suffering from the Pervasive Effects of
Secularism"
By John-Henry Westen
LifeSite.com
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2006/may/06052302.html
VATICAN, May 23, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Addressing Catholic bishops
from Atlantic Canada Saturday, Pope Benedict XVI warned that "Canada is
today suffering from the pervasive effects of secularism." The Pope
explained that "the attempt to promote a vision of humanity apart from
God's transcendent order and indifferent to Christ's beckoning light,
removes from the reach of ordinary men and women the experience of
genuine hope."
[More at URL]
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Pro-Family Leader Pleased to Find Ohio at Bottom of Homosexuals' List
By Chad Groening
American Family Association/Agape Press
May 23, 2006
http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/5/afa/232006d.asp
(AgapePress) - An Ohio pro-family activist says the state should
consider it a point of pride that a radical homosexual rights group has
ranked Ohio last in the United States in terms of providing special
rights to homosexuals and similar groups.
A pro-homosexual group calling itself Equality of Ohio recently
published a nationwide study about so-called discrimination against
"gays," lesbians, bisexuals, and transgendered individuals. The study
rated the state of Ohio dead last in protecting the "equality" of those
groups.
[More at URL]
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TVC Opposes Increase In Global AIDS Funding Proposal
Traditional Values Coalition
http://www.traditionalvalues.org/modules.php?sid=2732
May 23, 2006 - Washington, DC – Traditional Values Coalition is calling
on Congress to reject a multi-million dollar increase in funding for
the Global AIDS Fund, an organization that is unaccountable to U.S.
taxpayers and openly opposes President Bush’s AIDS policies.
“Congress must not provide increased taxpayer funding to the Global
Fund To Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria,” said Traditional Values
Coalition Executive Director Andrea Lafferty. “This organization’s
leader has openly admitted that this fund is pursuing policies
diametrically opposed to those of the Bush Administration. It
encourages needle giveaway programs and the legalization of
prostitution. Taxpayers should not be asked to fund such activities
under the guise of fighting AIDS and diseases.
[More at URL]
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TVC Chairman And Staffer Invited To White House Signing Ceremony
Traditional Values Coalition
http://www.traditionalvalues.org/modules.php?sid=2730
May 19, 2006 – TVC Chairman Rev. Louis P. Sheldon and Chief of Staff
April Waugh were invited by President Bush to attend his signing of an
historic tax-cutting bill passed by Congress.
[More at URL]
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Risk Audit Project Gains Momentum
Traditional Values Coalition, Stephen Bennett Ministries, Parents,
Friends Of Ex-Gays and Gays, and Numerous Additional Grassroots
Pro-Family Organizations Endorse Public School Homosexuality Risk Audit
To: National Desk, Education Reporter, Feature Reporter
Contact: Linda Harvey, president, Mission America,614-442-7998,
lharvey at missionamerica.com; E. Ray Moore, Jr., Exodus Mandate,
803-714-1744
http://www.earnedmedia.org/em0518.htm
COLUMBIA, SC, May 18 /Christian Newswire/ -- The Risk Audit Project,
launched in April with strong endorsements from a coalition of
pro-family groups including American Family Association, Concerned
Women for America, Family Research Council, many state chapters of
Eagle Forum, and AFA of Pennsylvania, continues to receive endorsements
from additional major pro-family groups.
Developed by Mission America’s president, Linda Harvey, the purpose of
the Risk Audit Project is to help pro-family organizations, parents,
churches, and community activists determine whether their local school
districts are betraying their community’s trust by collaborating with
homosexual activists or attempting to indoctrinate schoolchildren with
the view that homosexual behavior is safe or morally acceptable.
The Risk Audit Project is being implemented through a survey instrument
that can be used by pro-family organizations, churches, parents, and
citizens to assess the level and types of pro-homosexual material,
activities and curricula utilized in any given school district.
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Revisiting the Same-sex Marriage Issue
For Immediate Release
REAL Women of Canada
Toronto, Ontario May 4, 2006
http://www.realwomenca.com/press.htm#05_04_06
Twelve pro-family organizations from across Canada have joined together
in an association called Defend Marriage Coalition to work toward a
winning vote in Parliament in support of traditional marriage. This
vote, according to Prime Minister Harper, will take place “sooner
rather than later.”
As its first initiative, the Defend Marriage Coalition has written to
the leaders of all the individual faiths in Canada requesting that they
become actively involved in this vote.
This is important not only for the fact that marriage between a man and
a woman protects children, and their families, but it is also important
in order to properly protect religious freedoms in Canada.
Contrary to the former Liberal government's assertions, religious
groups will be subject to legal challenges if the legal definition of
marriage continues to include same-sex partners.
This is based on the fact that the Supreme Court of Canada in the
same-sex marriage reference handed down on December 9, 2004, concluded
that although the provisions on the Civil Marriage Act passed last year
purports to preserve religious rights, this provision, in fact, has no
effect, and is superfluous, because the provision deals with provincial
rights and is therefore outside the federal government's jurisdiction.
The Supreme Court did acknowledge that religious groups would be
protected from actually performing same-sex marriages, but the court
also stated that in situations where there is a “collision of rights”
the courts would be obligated to balance and delineate these colliding
rights. This is not reassuring because in most cases in which the
courts have adjudicated religious freedoms versus homosexual rights,
the latter's rights have trumped religious rights.
Already, in less than a year since the same-sex marriage law was
passed, cases have arisen which determinably affects religious rights
in Canada:
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The Lunatic Fringe goes Mainstream
By Jill Stanek, May 24, 2006
© 2006 WorldNetDaily.com
Hosted by Canada Family Action Coalition
http://www.familyaction.org/Articles/issues/life/lunatic-fringe.htm
Most agree abortion is at the very least unpleasant. Even two of its
most ardent political supporters, Bill and Hillary Clinton, concur
abortion should be "safe, legal, and rare." There's no reason to say
that unless abortion is bad for some reason.
But latter-day feminist abortion advocates disagree. They think
abortion is not just fine; it's holy.
I'm sure fringe feminist writings equate abortion as sacred. What
surprises me are the mainstream pro-abortion feminist leaders making
such statements today, like Debi Jackson, owner of Cincinnati Women's
Services abortion mill, and Cecilia Fire Thunder, president of the
Oglala Sioux Native American tribe.
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